{"pk":29281,"title":"Mathematical Creativity: Incubation, Serial Order Effect, and Relation toDivergent Thinking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current study explored whether creative processes specifically incubation and the serial order effect extend to creativityin mathematics, and if there is a relation to divergent thinking. A total of 155 postsecondary students completed an unusualuse task and a multiple-strategy math task. Participants were given 8 minutes to generate as many strategies as they couldfor the math task, and then after a brief break, were given another problem with the same underlying structure for 4minutes. We find evidence for a serial order effect in math, whereas across trials it became more difficult for participantsto generate a new strategy, but the strategies were rated as more creative. The brief break also provided some evidence ofincubation, as there was a boost in the number of overall strategies and creativity. We also found that divergent thinkingand mathematical creativity were significantly related.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0862b021","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stacy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shaw","name_suffix":"","institution":"Univeristy of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Gerardo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramirez","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ball State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29281/galley/19152/download/"}]}